Re: [PATCH V3 0/6] namespaces: log namespaces per task

On 14/08/19, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com&gt; writes: > >> On 14/05/20, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: >>> On 14/05/20, Eric Paris wrote: >>>> On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 09:12 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: >>>>> The purpose is to track namespaces in use by logged processes from the >>>>> perspective of init_*_ns. >> >> (Including the Linux API list due to the additions to /proc/<pid>/ns/. >> Please see http://www.kernelhub.org/?p=2&msg=477668 and in particular >> http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=477678&p=2 ) > > Sigh if you have to use something like this use the proc inode > number. It is the same thing. > > I hate to claim it is unique absent of the proc superblock but it is and > will be for the forseable future. > > It would be better to include the block device number that appears in > proc of 3h of the primary mount of to qualify the number. But it is not > particularly important. Coming up with an additional unique number that > needs to be maintained seems stronlgy silly. I am reading a contradiction here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2013-March/msg00032.html and this posting went completely ignored: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-January/msg00180.html And then there was this patchset and thread where there was some good discussion to clarify the use case: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/22/662 Then V2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/9/637 Then V3 3 months ago: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-May/msg00071.html I'm about to post another version of the patchset addressing Eric Paris' concerns about record types, field naming...